Robinson leaves Mount Allison football team

Mount Allison’s Shaun Robinson, right, plays in a game last fall. Robinson is leaving the Mounties for a bigger program. (STAFF / File)

Defensive lineman Shaun Robinson of Halifax has left the Mount Allison Mounties football team after two stellar seasons.

Mount A head coach Scott Brady said Monday that Robinson notified him of his decision in recent weeks.

He said Robinson, a devastating pass rusher, told him he wanted to play for a bigger program and hadn’t ruled out an attempt to find a spot in the NCAA.

“He said good things about being here, but he didn’t want to have any regrets about not taking an NCAA opportunity if he could get that,” said Brady, in his first months on the job after Kelly Jeffrey resigned following last season.

Robinson was already considered one of the top defensive players in the AUS despite playing his first two seasons in the league before the age of 20.

A former Citadel player who played three times for Team Canada internationally, he had 10.5 sacks and 29.5 tackles for losses in two seasons.